Giroud is doing well in his early career with Arsenal and he has 28 goals in 74 games which is quite good. i think he is very important to the way Arsenal play with assists too. Drogba was better though but not sure he was as good as people pretend for his whole career as he had only two or three really great seasons.
He may only have had two or three good seasons as you say but he always did the business against us. Seeing Senderos back peddling in panic summed up our mental attitude towards him. This is probably why so many Arsenal supporters would say that Drogba was great.
You have a point. I still think that Drogba was a top player and he greatly helped Chelsea win the Prem and Champions League, but the memories of him continually tormenting our defence will always be etched in my mind. Never has one player ever had that kind of a hold over a particular team that Drogba had over us. Take him out the line up and the head to heads would look much better for us.
Giroud is the weakest link in our starting 11 and his position is so important it is starting to wreck our title chances. I wonder if all of those who voted for 'we don't need better' would reconsider if asked again?
nah , he " holds the ball up well , and at least hes " up the front " worth every penny of his wages .
3 goals in 14 for Giroud, lol, yeah, the guy's ****, time for his fan club to stop making excuses for him, put your hands up, and admit he's not good enough to be Arsenal's leading striker.
I think that's widely acknowledged in football - which makes Wengers lack of signing a top striker last summer even more bizarre.
---------------------------Szszesny------------------------- Sagna-------------Koscielny--------Mertesacker--------Gibbs ------------------?????????----------Ramsey---------------- Walcott---------------------Ozil-------------------????????? ---------------------------????????------------------------- The way I see it, we need three very good players to become a real top class team. Possibly four as it's becoming clearer by the season that Walcott cannot be relied upon to be fit for an entire campaign. Not his fault, but he just picks up injuries every season. Cazorla is not a winger and should battle for a starting place with Ozil. Doubt Wenger will have the balls for that though. He'll either continue Cazorla on the wing or sell him to someone like Valencia or Juve for about £12m to avoid a confrontation Given how flaccid we've been recently I'm also not entirely convinced that Draxler is someone that we really immediately need. We need a pacy wideman/wing forward who's a goal threat and Draxler isn't really that from what I've seen. Great potential though. But we need Bender, Di Maria/Mertens/Mirallas/Reus and Manduzkic/Suarez/Higuain/Jeffers/Eduardo/any striker under the sun before Draxler I think. Unless Wenger is really convinced Draxler will be a top class CF and play him there immediately.
Got berrated in January and August for saying we are going to drop so many points due to us not signing an above average striker (at the very least) I hope those same people are still satisfied with Giroud.
There is no substitution for a top striker. During our successful Wenger days, we consistently had top strikers or strikers that could do that special thing. It's unfortunate that when we seemed to have cracked our defensive issue is when we lost our last top striker in RVP. He wouldn't get into any top Premiership first 11 or any top European team that have aspirations of winning their domestic leagues.
The problem here is that Giroud is a good player but Is he good enough for a title winning side?...No. Would he get into Dortmunds, PSG's, Uniteds, Bayerns, Barca's, City's or even Athletico Madrid's starting 11?..No he would not. He works hard, his hold up play is good but for me he either has to play up top alongside a better finisher OR he should be used as an impact sub. His conversion rate is awful and the fact he is yet to score against United, Chelsea or City says a lot. If you see Arsenal as a team content fighting it out for a Top four place then Giroud is fine. If our ambition is grander however we need a World Class striker to compete with the best teams.
Everyone knows Giroud isn't good enough, his fan club before could spring to his defence by bringing up his good form from August-September, but that honeymoon period is long gone, and back in October I was saying Giroud's conversion rate wasn't good enough, but since August-September was fresh in the minds of his fan club, they berated me. Well, guess I mr. negative turned out right again, I said eventually his lack of ruthlessness in front of goal will cost us, and it surely has this season, and again last night. How the **** couldn't he score that free header he had, or even get it on target? Everybody knows we need a new striker, it's not even a debate, (only Toledo thinks otherwise, thank heavens he's ****ed off).
Heck, why didn't we use Sanago? He's the new striker we bought! And some on here went into spin job mode saying ohhhhhhh well maybe he can do something, so why didn't Wenger use him then? Obviously Wenger doesn't even have the trust to bring him on.
We had the point in the bag , why would he risk it . Cushty result for Arsene . He aimed for it and he got it . What we should be riled about is WHY he feels a point is a good result at home . As someone has already said , if that was Fulham or Crystal Palace we dropped points to he would be furious. He has Maunfobia. Fear of soft red scum .
I'd say he has a phobia in most big games, we were toothless vs Chelsea at home as well, in both times we played them, cup and league.
I think Giroud would make a better squad player.. he *does* have the ability from time to time but reliance on him every game just isn't working.
Giroud would have been great in a classic 4-4-2 back in the day. He would have been the big man laying it off for the quick forward. In our system and especially with Walcott out, he is becoming redundant.
